With the e-mail that brought today's 'toon, Tom/Dan wrote
Hey, all,
Well, if this one seems slightly disconnected from the news cycle, it’s because I wrote it two weeks ago and saved it in anticipation of the week just concluded, in which my divorce was at last finalized. I live in New York now but had to go up to Connecticut where, in some New England Puritan holdover tradition, you must physically go to court and stand before a judge to have your settlement approved, even when you’ve mediated everything yourself and are not pursuing a trial. In the end it was all fine — I’d even say amicable — but I didn't get much writing done last week as a result.
This one was initially inspired by Chuck Todd’s favorite voice of civility, Erick Erickson, who tweeted out an approving mention of the alt-right “helicopter ride” meme — referencing Pinochet’s method of executing political opponents by pushing them out of helicopters. But I hope it speaks to a larger point, the tendency of these shows to feature right wingers with batshit crazy ideas, as long as they can contain their batshit craziness for the length of the broadcast.
Hey and also, it’s that time of the year again. I haven’t added much new merch this year but there are still some odds and ends available at the online store, and of course, copies of TMW25 are still available on Amazon.
Until next time….
Dan/Tom
This blogger had initial qualms about including a merchandising message from Dan/Tom, but the financial toll of a divorce brought back bitter memories and the blogger thought again and included the merchandising message.in this season of this sound. If these are (fair & balanced) difficult times for us all, so be it.
[x TMW]
Taking Them For A Ride
By Tom Tomorrow (Dan Perkins)
[Dan Perkins is an editorial cartoonist better known by the pen name "Tom Tomorrow." His weekly comic strip, "This Modern World," which comments on current events from a strong liberal perspective, appears regularly in approximately 150 papers across the U.S., as well as on Daily Kos. The strip debuted in 1990 in SF Weekly. Perkins received the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Excellence in Journalism in both 1998 and 2002. When he is not working on projects related to his comic strip, Perkins writes a daily political blog, also entitled "This Modern World," which he began in December 2001. More recently, Dan Perkins, pen name Tom Tomorrow, was named the winner of the 2013 Herblock Prize for editorial cartooning. Even more recently, Dan Perkins was a runner-up for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning.]
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